This way of thinking just isn’t aging well. HTML is the view part of the web, and it turns out users want more application-like behavior and developers want to

This way of thinking just isn’t aging well. HTML is the view part of the web, and it turns out users want more application-like behavior and developers want to build applications and not websites. Caveat, this is still only true for some applications. Static HTML is still fine for certain applications. Just never the ones I work on. It started with AJAX and now we’ve converged on single page apps, which are effectively native clients where the target platform is the browser. There is simply a real demand for rich client UX and you can’t get that with pure HTML. Which is no surprise because it wasn’t designed for that. It was designed for sharing textual documents, as the article proclaims. But is that an accurate model of an application? I don’t think it is. The web has evolved to support more than just hyperlinked documents. Good or bad, that’s why people want.